Gadgetory

imagine controlling your computer with a wag of your finger leap motion is making it happen the goal is to fundamentally transform how people interact with computers and and to do so in the same way that the mouse did here you're seeing a you're seeing my fingertip and this is sort of the direction of my finger here's one of the path is tracing out and of course everything's everything's in full 3d so you can see you know we're tracking that too we're not just tracking the fingertips we're also tracking the tracking the entire hands so here's my entire hand you can see very small motions of my fingertips are very easy to pick up of course you can do more than one hand we can do other objects there's like my arm or you know here's here's chopstick right here subtle motions are immediately occurring on the screen and so that there's no there's no distance between sort of thought and response this is a social networking data so you see lots of little connections between the the people with little triangles and sort of what's going on here and generalist like this would be very complicated to visualize and very difficult to interact with and here we're interacting with it as it was sort of a physical thing maps just got a lot more interesting we have way more accuracy than it's probably necessary for pinch to zoom but you get a really good responsive sort of touched like feeling I can zoom in and I can go up and down I go left and right but also I can also do of course all these things simultaneously in San Francisco i'm daniel Terdiman for cnet news